Auction Catalogue

25 September 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1239

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£520

Tibet 1903-04, no clasp (Lieutt. L. N. Malan, R.E.) minor official correction to unit and some light pitting, otherwise very fine £400-500

Leslie Noel Malan was born on 21 July 1877, and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 31 December 1876, having won the Sword of Honour on passing out from Sandhurst. He served with the Tibet Mission as officer commanding the Sikkim Cooly Corps (Medal). He served throughout the Great War with the R.E. Railway Unit in East Africa (O.B.E. and brevet Major) and from 1927-30 was Chief Engineer, Malaya and Singapore. He retired in in the rank of Colonel in July 1930 and died at Folkestone on 2 March 1951. In addition to Great War medals he is also entitled to the Delhi Durbar medal for 1911. Sold with research including copied portrait photograph.